Policy and Programme Officer

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 236188**Salary**:

- £30,360 - £32,275**Grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- BEIS - Net Zero Strategy & International - International Energy and Climate Finance**Type of role**:

- Environment and Sustainability
- Policy
- Project Delivery**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of posts**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, SalfordAbout the job

**Summary**:
**Our Mission**

At BEIS, we are leading the UK’s recovery from coronavirus and are building a stronger, greener country. Our varied work makes a real difference to people across the UK and internationally. This is a fantastic opportunity to become part of the BEIS team and our exciting mission

We lead on the UK’s commitments to tackle climate change and drive green economic growth. We support businesses to create jobs and increase opportunity in regions across the UK. We also encourage investment and innovation to make the UK a science superpower producing research that will improve lives.

**Our Inclusive Environment**

We are building an inclusive culture to make BEIS a brilliant place to work where our people feel valued, have a voice and can be their authentic selves. We value difference and diversity, not only because we believe it is the right thing to do, but because it will help us be more innovative and make better decisions.

We offer first-class flexible working benefits, excellent employee well-being support and a great pension. We are fortunate to have a range of excellent staff networks and are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We will support talented people from all backgrounds to build a career and thrive.

**Job description**:
COP26 concluded in November 2021 with 197 Parties agreeing the Glasgow Climate Pact, reaching consensus on the need for urgent climate action. This means that the goal to limit global warming to 1.5C remains in sight, but this will only be achieved through an immediate, sustained global effort. The UK plays a central role in accelerating progress on climate change internationally and BEIS's International Climate Finance (ICF) team is critical to this, supporting developing countries in to achieve and enhance their emissions reduction goals.

The 2050 Calculator Programme supports developing country governments to build their own version of the UK’s 2050 Calculator energy and emissions model - a tool that allows users to trial different options for reducing emissions at a faster rate and to build a pathway that meets long-term emission targets to 2050.

**Responsibilities**:
Manage a portfolio of country calculator projects: for each project, the programme officer is responsible for managing the relationship between 3 key stakeholders (the Programme Delivery Partner, the Project Implementing Partner, FCDO embassy colleagues) to ensure the project is completed by the agreed deadline and witin budget, hitting as many of the Programme KPIs as possible, while minimising reputational risk and maximising the project’s potential to advance UK national interests.

Manage communications and outreach: liaising with the delivery partner communications lead and ICF communications team for calculator kick-offs, launches, newsletters, and conferences.

Finance and programme management: lead on managing payment of invoices/grant claims as well as ICF programme management requirements (completing project delivery plans and internal programme updates)

The Green Finance and Capability Building team is committed to supporting staff to gain a wide range of experiences, your manager will work with you to shape your responsibilities to meet your development needs/aspirations.

**Skills and experience**

**Essential**
- Strong project/programme management and organisation skills.
- A good team player and relationship builder. This role will work with a wide range of stakeholders across Whitehall and globally (both internally and outside of HMG).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to grasp complex concepts quickly and explain them to others

**Desirable**
- Knowledge of the international climate policy landscape.
- Experience working as or with consultants/ contracted parties.
- Experience of working with and influencing international stakeholders, particularly developing countries.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Managing a Quality Service
- Communicating and Influencing
- Changing and Improving

**Benefits**:

- BEIS offers a competitive mix of benefits including:

- A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
- Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
- A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per y